Pig Out On This Huge Tomahawk Katsu Curry Don With Edible Gold Sauce For Chinese New Year

If you haven’t indulged in enough pork dishes in the Year Of The Pig yet, here are a couple more to try. Modern Japanese restaurant Tanuki Raw has gone the whole hog with its Instagram-worthy CNY-edition tomahawk katsu rice bowls, drenched in red curry and a gold dust-infused truffle sauce. Say huat?

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Golden Nagano Tomahawk Katsu Curry Don, $28.80

What is a tomahawk steak anyway? While it often refers to beef, this one features Nagano pork cut from the fore rib, with the long rib bone left on the pork steak so it sticks out of your bowl majestically. The 300g of meat is marinated in beer, coated with panko crumbs and fried to crisp. It is then draped in spicy red curry made with house-blended spices, roasted capsicum, chilli paste and miso, and finished off with a drizzle of “shimmering golden truffle sauce”, the latter a showy blend of soy sauce, truffle oil, wine and gold dust. The beast sits atop fluffy Japanese short-grain rice mixed with chopped pickles and furikake (umami seaweed-based seasoning). Cholesterol schmolesterol.

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Black Gold Double Prosperity Donburi, $23.80

Another CNY special, starring braised US prime short rib beef and Nagano pork belly in a “black and shimmering golden truffle sauce”, the former comprising miso, vinegar, aged soy sauce, and house-made mala sauce. Paired with a wobbly onsen egg, pickles and rice.

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Truffle Wagyu Sukiyaki Don, $27.80 (while stocks last)

A new offering of sliced Japanese Joshu wagyu from Gunma Prefecture, gently cooked in a sweet and savoury sukiyaki sauce, with roasted onions, truffle sauce, onsen egg, and white leeks over marinated rice. Only available at Tanuki’s National Design Centre outlet.